Flight From Reality
The definitive account of a bizarre and mysterious chapter in the history of the Second World War. May 10, 1941. A Scottish
ploughman spotted a parachutist floating to the ground on a field just a dozen miles south of Glasgow. He ran out to find a burning twin-engine Messerschmitt bomber and an injured officer in the
uniform of a German Air Force Captain. The aviator asked to be taken to see the Duke of Hamilton for whom, he claimed, he was carrying an important message.
The man was none other than Rudolf Hess, Deputy Fuhrer and right-hand man of Adolf Hitler. Hess had not come as
Hitler’s emissary but was acting alone in seeking to negotiate a peace deal between Britain and Germany. Held as a prisoner of war and convicted as a war criminal at Nuremberg. Hess spent the rest of his life in a high-security prison in Berlin-Spandau where he committed suicide in 1987, aged
93.
ISBN-13 : 9780712680257
Publisher : Random House UK
Publication date : 25/06/2002
Author : David Stafford
Meet the Author
David Stafford is the author of Roosevelt and Churchill; Churchill and Secret
Service; and Britain and European Resistance.